More Rain and Reindeer

Friday, May 26, 2006

There's a slight chance that the weather will cooperate for AESOP. So, they're planning for a 6am (local time) launch. Which means most people went back for a nap in order to show up around 2am for flight preparations. I've been assigned to video tape the balloon handling and deployment, as a routine NASA record. That means I need to be around at 4am. Two video cameras and 4 batteries are ready. But, the skies and forecast don't look like they'll cooperate.

For dinner we had chopped-up reindeer meat in a mushroom sauce over bow-tie pasta with small red berries. I actually ate some and it wasn't too bad... a little stringy. Of course, all the predictable jokes were thrown around. "Is it Dasher or Dancer?" "Are those red things pieces of Rudolph's nose?" And my contribution: "You know what's for supper when there's one less pulling the sleigh!".